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B. KITT. Double Clapper Bell.

Patented June 5, 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

BALTHASAR KITT, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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Specification of Letters Patent No. 28 ,586, dated June 5, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BALTHASAR KITT, of Cincinnati, in the county ofHamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Double-Clapper Bells; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification.

The nature of my invention consists in so arranging the outside clapperof a double clapper bell, that it will strike the bell at a properposition and at appropriate intervals of time, to produce harmonioussounds or a chime and make a consonant not a discordant sound, and alsoin so arranging the clapper that it can be kept out of use if requiredor regularly tolled without moving the bell.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view of the bell when the inside clapperis striking it and the outside clapper is at its extreme distance fromit, and Fig. 2 is a View when the outside clapper is striking and theinside clapper is hanging freely in the center of the bell. Fig. 3 is adetached view of the rollers between which one of the ropes that movethe outside clapper is allowed to work freely up and down.

The bell C is hung in the usual manner by a yoke D which has bearings intwo vertical standards B, which are secured to any suitable bed as A. Onone of the journals of the yoke there is a wheel E in whose groovedperiphery the rope O, by which the bell is swung reposes being attachedto the periphery of the wheel E in the usual manner. The inner clapper Fis hung from the center of the bell and on each side is a spring G toprevent it striking the bell out of its time and to bring it sharplyback after it has struck the bell.

One standard B is extended considerably above the top of the yoke and toa small platform on its top there is secured a projection H which isprovided with a small box at the end nearest the standard, in whichthere are three friction rollers a and b, a being parallel with thestandard and b I) being parallel with the yoke of the bell, these allowthe rope M to pass freely through them and work up and down withoutwearing it. The use of the small rollers b will be seenmore fully in theoperation when described. At the end of H the bar I is pivoted. In itsupper end are a series of holes to which the ends of the ropes M and Ncan be' attached, and at its lower end the outside clapper J issuspended. Secured to the back of projection H is a small supplementarystandard K in which there is a small grooved wheel L and over this therope N passes, and the end of the rope can be secured to a small pin 0that is fixed in the bed A. The end of the rope M is always secured toone of the arms of the wheel E at such a point as the motion of theoutside clapper requires. The rod I is bent below its connection withproject-ion H in such a manner as to allow of the yoke swinging withoutinterfering with its motion. The rope O which swings the bell by thewheel E is allowed to hang in the usual manner.

The operation of my invention is as follows: hen the rope O is pulled inthe ordinary manner, the inside clapper E first strikes the bell andgives the sound to which the bell is tuned, in so doing or rather whenthe bell assumes the position seen in Fig. 1, then the cord or rope M,being attached to one of the radial arms of the wheel E is pulledbetween the rollers a, Z), 6, and here their advantage is seen for asthe roller allows the rope M to pass freely over it without wearing, soalso do the side rollers b, b as they are alternately brought into useby the oscillation of the wheel E taking the rope M from side to side;the rope M being as I explained before, pulled, and so elevates theoutside clapper J, which when the bell is allowed to swing back, thecord M being loosened strikes the bell and produces according to itsposition a note or tone harmonious with the one struck by the innerclapper being either a third or fifth above it in the scale.

lVhen it is desired that the bell should remain stationary the clapper Jcan be used as a tolling clapper, by pulling the rope N and operatingthe lever I and clapper J alone without in any way disturbing the bell,and if desired the rope N can be secured to the pin 0 in the bed A andthe outside clapper J kept from action altogether while the bell isswung and the inner clapper rings the bell. By this arrangement it willbe seen that one bell may be made to act as a chime and that forchurches small public edifices etc. it will be not only very convenientbut will vary the continual monotony of the repetition of but one soundon the ears of the cord M, passing between the rollers a and b b andsecured to an arm of the Wheel E as and for the purposes shown anddescribed.

2. The arrangement herein described in relation to the bell of the tWoclappers F, and T, by which the sounds shall follow each other atequally successive intervals and With harmonious or concordant sounds.

- BALTHASAR KITT.

Witnesses:

PHILIP BRILEAU JONES, WM. R. MoCo As.

